It asks the important question: what does our fondness for zombie tales say about our psychology and politics?
It also has a nice little graph showing the rise in the numbers of zombie movies over the past decades.
Considering this evidence that plenty of people are alert to the zombie menace, I now feel that perhaps I should become concerned about some other, less popular monster, just to make sure that a variety of threats are being evaluated for their potential to bring about the downfall of civilization.
Maybe kelpies.
Not the dogs, the water horses. Those things are creepy.
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I saw this too, and the graph tickled me :). Graphs are fun!
Don't know how accurate his reading of the genre is, but I'd certainly like to buy his moral of the story!
Kelpies are bad. Any sort of elemental fae are usually not good to mess with. Things like brownies and boggarts can be very nasty if you get on their wrong side...
Plus, they're so spooky!
Something about the arbitrary weirdness of the stories about them just creeps one out. Like how they'll devour just your right leg and left pinkie finger, or whatever.
Why those parts? Who knows, but it's bizarre enough to seem like it might be almost true...on a dark foggy night walking by a pond...
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